Hardware Discussion Thread

[Xtreme2damax]

I'm having a minor issue and I think it may be hdd related. Recently some stuff such as opening programs is sluggish, explorer briefly hangs, Nvidia control panel hangs. This issue will occur on occasion and sometime there will be no issue for a while and it will return. The issue occurs frequently when I leave my system on for a while but sometimes occurs from a cold boot. Sometimes the bios will hang when detecting the hdd's.

Do I need a new hdd or hdd's? So far no data loss or corruption has occurred so maybe it isn't the hdd but something else.

[Anti-Ultimate]

What does CrystalDiskInfo say?

[Xtreme2damax]

I don't know what that is but I'll look into it. I was told a while back Hitachi Deskstars were crap so I'm surprised they've lasted this long.

[DatKid20]

So I wanted to build a computer mostly meant for watching videos on for my dad.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/vKHPvK

I was wondering if this would be fine for just watching videos and browsing the internet?

[AnyOldName3]

Apparently:

My spare SATA power cable doesn't reach the area my SSD was going to ge, so it's held in by a single screw under my DVD drive until I find an appropriate cable.

Intel NUCs don't work with just any DDR3 SODIMM. You need to buy a 1.35V certified one.

[AnyOldName3]

Also, copying stuff to my new second mechanical drive (both the new and the old are WD10EZEX) is unreasonably slow, and getting slower. I've already checked alignment (which wasn't likely to be a problem, as neither are clones) and CrystalDiskInfo, and there are no problems. I've seen 15 year old IDE drives copy at close to this kind of speed.

For reference, I'm getting 24 MB/s on drives rated at 180 MB/s even on single large non-fragmented files that should be hitting peak speeds.

[ExtremeDude2]

My HDD's are absolutely horrible, especially my one with where I put all my games, I really need to replace it

[AnyOldName3]

I've since realised that some of the issue is it's giving an average of the actual files copied over the full time it's been running, so when it got to the huge number of ~500 byte files in the folder I was copying it slowed down and then didn't appear to rapidly speed up when it got to larger files.

[KHg8m3r]

(09-28-2014, 10:51 AM)DatKid20 Wrote: So I wanted to build a computer mostly meant for watching videos on for my dad.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/vKHPvK

I was wondering if this would be fine for just watching videos and browsing the internet?

Switch to dual channel ram, but other than that it looks fine for a low end videos PC.

[DatKid20]

http://www.geek.com/games/2ds-and-3ds-mod-allows-use-of-gamecube-controller-for-input-1605452/

This is pretty cool.